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While I am in complete agreement with you regarding concessions - I do not believe any company should be given them if all are not granted the same. The granting of them leads me to believe that taxes and regulations were too onerous to begin with.

I do not agree with you regarding the "propaganda" and it being "99% lies."

Surrounding every WalMart I have ever been in new businesses keep springing up, and my experience is that thy actually help local small business with referrals to another location if they do not have the product you are seeking.

Your mileage may vary, but that has been my experience with WalMart in 2 different states.

>Surrounding every WalMart I have ever been in new businesses keep springing up,<

Their is no doubt they create a retail center within a mile of them but they kill more businesses in the region than they create.

Walmart prospered when the Reagan administration quit enforcing Robinson Packman.Walmart receives pricing concessions from manufactures that are not justified by cost savings to the manufacturer.Walmart,Home Depot and other "Big Box Retailers" have restrained trade by forcing manufactures to deal directly with them voiding distributor and manufactures rep contracts in order to pass these fees to Walmart.These practices are illegal but their has been no enforcement in 20 years in this country.